Fast, Easy, Healthy Recipes
Whether you are cooking for two or ten, or even more, you want your meals to be delicious. You also want them to be fast, easy and above all healthy. You do not want to rely on eating out all the time, nor do you want to be stuck preparing boxed, bagged or frozen meals all of the time. But who really has time to cook real food from scratch these days? You do, and all it takes is a little planning and some prep work ahead of time.
Remember back in the old days when a home cooked meal was the norm rather than the exception? And Mom cooked supper in a dress, pumps and pearls, right? Yeah, that is not happening anymore. The whole family has stuff to do from Mom and Dad right down to the little ones, so how do you manage to make good food ?
Make friends with your slow cooker. Presoak your favorite bean variety, and then drain and rinse. Toss them into the slow cooker with an onion, and whatever flavorings that you want to add. Put the lid on tightly, turn it on low and then go off to work, school or wherever. When you return in the evening, you will have a delicious meal already waiting for you. There are other crock pot recipes, and many of the books will tell you how to adapt almost anything to slow cooker goodness. Besides the convenience of being able to start the food and go, the other benefit of a slow cooker is not having to heat up the kitchen during the summer months.
If you are not cooking for a huge crowd, then utilize your indoor grill and make healthy, delicious meals that take a fraction of the time and have the same benefit of not heating up the kitchen in the hot summer months. Of course, if you are cooking for a crowd you can fire up your out door grill and do the same meals
If you have a chance to take a day for cooking, make double or even triple batches of some of your favorite recipes. Use one batch as tonight's meal, and then freeze the rest in differing size portions. Halve one to use as another full family meal. Cut the other half into individual portions and freeze up as lunch items, or for days when everybody cannot eat at the same time. The advantage here is that everybody can grab their favorite dish out of the freezer and eat it without anybody having to cook additional food.
One of the fastest, easiest and still healthy recipes that I know: take deli sliced turkey breast and baby spinach leaves. Spread the turkey with good mustard and sprinkle with the spinach leaves, roll up just as they are. Serve with chopped, raw veggies and make it a finger food kind of meal. The kids will love it, and I won't tell them that it's healthy. It will be our secret.
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